Photo by Cindy Trinh (@cindytrinh.photo)
We’re back for season 3 of Chinatown Block Party 夏日傾情! Think!Chinatown x Chinatown Records 華埠錄音 team up again to fill the historic newsstand and Mosco Street with music and art for the whole family all summer long.
Soundtracking the block, YiuYiu 瑶瑶 pulls old and new favorites from the ever-growing Chinatown Records archive inherited from family and neighbors. First up, we’re bringing back longtime music lover / 2nd time DJ Buckley Yung 翁百里 to kick off our first home game of the season. We’ll be bringing all our parents’ and our favorites – maybe yours too!
This is a block party for the whole family! Rain or shine ~ let us know you’re coming by signing up for free.
This season of Chinatown Block Party 夏日傾情 is made possible by Canal Sound & Light. Sponsored by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and NYC Dept of Cultural Affairs with support from NYC Dept of Small Businesses. Thank you to our community safety partner, Nonviolent Peaceforce.
YiuYiu 瑶瑶 (aka Rochelle Hoi-Yiu Kwan) is a cultural organizer, oral history educator, and DJ based on Lenape land in NYC's Manhattan Chinatown. She takes on her childhood name YiuYiu 瑶瑶 as an artist and DJ for Chinatown Records, a community effort to celebrate the breadth of music and history that comes with inherited family record collections. Alongside her family and neighbors, YiuYiu 瑶瑶 produces Chinatown block parties, sonic family histories, and listening sessions to foster intergenerational dancefloors and memories as powerful acts of resistance and resilience.
@rochellehkwan
Buckley Yung 翁百里 is a longtime music lover, starting with memories of music and records that his parents loved – many that then became among his favorites, alongside his own favorites too. Starting at the age of 13, he began searching out the latest direct-from-Hong Kong records in Boston’s Chinatown record stores. When he moved to New York to begin his first urban planning job after graduate school, he regularly frequented New York's Manhattan Chinatown – the mecca for record shopping on the east coast. Today, he spends his days enjoying the nearly 1,000 Chinese pop records scattered in every nook and corner of the home that he shares with his partner, Charlie. And with every record he brings home, he remembers those happy memories with his parents that started it all!
@thevinylbuck
Nonviolent Peaceforce is a global organization that provides protection for civilians in violent conflicts. We provide safety in countries such as Iraq, Myanmar, Philippines, South Sudan and many more. Here in the US, New York specifically, their work is centered around tackling anti-Asian hate. Learn more at nonviolentpeaceforce.org